Digital Video tools for Linux and Windows
This post is about a few software packages that have made capturing and editing digital video a lot simpler and easier for me.
For capturing from a dv camera on Linux, open source dvgrab is my favorite. It’s available as a separate package for most Linux distros, and also as one of several CLI tools that [...]
Firewire on CentOS 5.4
I’ve had quite a few posts on the subject of Firewire (IEEE1394) support in various distros, including CentOS. This is the first since I upgrade my main workstation at home with CentOS 5.4.
As far as I can recall all you had to do in previous releases of CentOS was install the centosplus kernel and the [...]
Painless kernel mods with ELRepo
Here’s something to give a try if you’ve got a test box sitting around just begging for something to do.
First off, let me make clear that my only connection to the ELRepo yum repository is as a grateful user. ELRepo is, in the words of the main page:
a RPM repository for Enterprise Linux packages. ELRepo [...]
Furlough Post #1: A Windows Virus on Wine
In the idle time I have while watching my two H1N1 infected children deal with fevers, coughs and runny noses (Note: the fevers broke today), I’ve taken to randomly browsing the web and found some interesting and amusing stuff.
This officially 2nd day of a five-day furlough (or “unpaid leave”) from an employer that’s been hit [...]
Internet Radio with Rhythmbox
Rhythmbox is the standard music player application for the Gnome desktop environment that’s installed by default on RHEL 5 and other Linux distros.
While its primary purpose is to play back lists of songs stored on disk, Rhythmbox also allows you to bookmark podcasts and live stream links for Internet radio stations.
Most Internet media streams require [...]
Playing commercial DVD movies in Totem
Using Linux as my desktop operating system at home gets me involved in many areas I don’t get involved in at work. Playing commercial DVD movies is one of those.
While I’ve previously written about my purchase of Fluendo’s licensed plugins for gstreamer, I haven’t yet had a chance to try out the DVD player from [...]
Hotlinking, WordPress and other Horrors
If you’ve worked around the web back in the days before unlimited bandwidth, you’ll know this trick: putting an .htaccess file at the root of your web site to prevent hotlinking to images you’ve got stored there by others (hotlinking is where someone else displays images they found on your site by creating a referral [...]